Tag Archives: Public Image Limited

seattle: ball and chain

Posted on September 8, 2012 by Dave

by Art Chantry: a number of years ago (20? 25?) there was a wonderful guerrilla action by a group of bohemian seattle artists. after the then-new Seattle Art Museum installed that awful “hammering man” sculpture in front of their new … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion | Tagged art chantry, Jason Sprinkle, john lydon PIL, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Mary Kathleen Brooks, Parkland Washington, PIL Seattle, Public Image Limited, seattle art museum, Seattle Cultural History | 1 Comment

post punk: beware of the big label

Posted on August 17, 2011 by Art

by Art Chantry (art@artchantry.com) …but the new british term of post punk seems to be emerging not as the huge enveloping overview or what happened, but instead as a very very tiny little shattered piece of that mirror. it’s not … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Marketing/Advertising/Media, Music/Composition/Performance | Tagged black flag, Captain Beefheart, dennis morris PIL, husker du, jah wobble, john lydon, joy division, ken levene, Malcolm McLaren, phil strongman, PIL, Public Image Limited, the replacements, the sex pistols | Leave a comment

post punk: johnny rotten

Posted on August 16, 2011 by Art

by Art Chantry (art@artchantry.com) I’m not very comfortable with the new popular label “post punk”. to begin with, it denotes a time frame – it comes after ‘punk’, right? ok, so how do we define 1) “punk” and IT’S time … Continue reading →